All music is classical music, you know. I don’t put up boundaries on music.

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Of course I started out in an ethnic community, with the blues and church music and jazz. But that was just one place to start. You read fiction then you start reading nonfiction! You start reading biographies and scientific accounts. It doesn’t change where you came from. It just broadens it. That’s what we do, we keep building on the foundation where we come from. You don’t lose it, you just keep building on it.

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I think we’ve gotten used to the dissonant, so it’s not even dissonant any more.

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[W]e have no control over anything but what we do. I just try to stay hopeful: I don’t want to get too pessimistic about anything.